VIEWFINDER
Glenn Baker ( geebee7676@aaahawk.com) sent us this hot of owner/builder Darrell Abby (darrellabby@att. net), posing with and preparing his Top Flite P- 40 for
flight.

Glenn noted that the exquisite P- 40 was Darrell’s first
venture into building a Giant Scale airplane. Powered by a
DLE- 55, the P- 40 has Robart retracts and is controlled by
a Futaba radio. Extra scale details were added, including an
elaborate cockpit.

Darrell generally flies at the Greater Southwest
Aeromodelers field in Fort Worth, Texas. Glenn wrote that
Darrell commented, “I have enjoyed studying the history of
the Flying Tigers with their P-40s in China at the beginning
of World War II, in conjunction with building and flying this
aircraft.”
Glenn included a You Tube link ( www.youtube.com/
watch?v=AfVJRPrbz1c) to a video of Darrell’s P- 40.

A Sony SLT-A55V was used to capture the photos. The
images were shot in Aperture Priority with ISOs of 100 and

200, and f-stops of f/4.5 and f/11 at 1/400 and 1/160 second,
respectively.

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